Links generally take a few weeks to start influencing rankings after they are indexed, even up to 6 weeks. Results vary depending on keyword competitiveness, number of links built, and your site's current standing. For DFY orders, we track ranking increases after your order is fulfilled, and we are happy to discuss this with you upon request.

Some sites deliberately block Ahrefs bots to prevent competitor analysis or reduce bandwidth costs. This is legitimate and does not affect link quality. What matters is that Google can access and index the page. Ahrefs crawls the web around three times slower than Google too, so it may just take a little longer to detect your link. If the page is not indexed in Google... For DFY orders, contact us at hello@linksthatrank.com and we will ask the publisher to resubmit the page to Google Search C...

If a delivered DFY placement does not meet the specifications we promise, contact us at hello@linksthatrank.com with the link details and your reasoning. We will review it. If it does not meet our guarantees, is within the 1 year guarantee period, and we are unable to fix it, we will replace it at no charge. Our guarantees are detailed in our [Terms of Purchase](https://linksthatrank.com/terms-of-purchase/)

Some common reasons for a drop in rankings include: 1. You stopped building links, but competitors did not... SEO is ongoing. If you pause while competitors continue, they will gradually outrank you. This is the most common cause of gradual ranking decline. 2. A Google algorithm update Major updates cause both gains and losses. A sharp drop after a known update may point to something on your site rather than competitors outperforming you. 3. Technical or on-page issues Site speed & core we...

Content syndication is when content from one site is republished on another — often automatically via RSS feeds. It is normal! Good content on good sites gets picked up and shared. If you notice your placement appearing on another site, this poses no risk and there is nothing you need to do about it.

Context matters a lot here. There's a meaningful difference between a site that exists purely as a gambling spam hub and a legitimate site that happens to have published a handful of genuine relevant articles on the topic among hundreds of others. The latter is completely fine in our view, and applying a hard rule either way ignores that nuance. For DFY orders, we assess every site across our full 23-step QC process. No single content category triggers a pass or fail — everything is evaluated...

This is not something that happens often, but we have seen occasional cases of it. These messages typically come in the form of payment demands or warnings that your link will be taken down, and are usually sent from an email address unrelated to the publication. In all likelihood, it is someone manually going through articles and trying their luck by contacting sites linked within the content. It is not something to be concerned about, and we recommend ignoring or marking these messages as sp...